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Date:      Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:20:27 +1200
From:      Richard Stevenson <richard@endace.com>
To:        water B <waterb11@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: File system error
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404011218540.30913@zhba.rg.raqnpr.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <20040331190701.Q4302@calis.blacksun.org>
References:  <20040331235541.52846.qmail@web41413.mail.yahoo.com> <20040331190701.Q4302@calis.blacksun.org>

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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Don wrote:

> > # df -h
> > Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/da0s1f    15G    13G   535M    96%    /usr
> > # du -h /usr
> > ...
> > 6.4G    /usr
> > I have deleted some files but it does not restore the used disk.
> > Does anybody have an idea?
> Type "sync"

And see if you can find out (lsof might help) if there were/are any
processes using the files you deleted - the file system can't release the
space until the file handles have been closed (or so I've found in the
past).

Cheers

Richard

-- 
Richard Stevenson



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